Charter for Working Group

The lack of a common set of security requirements and methods for routing protocols has resulted in a wide variety of security mechanisms for individual routing protocols. Ongoing work on requirements for the next generation routing system and future work on the actual mechanisms for it will require well documented routing security requirements.

The products of this working group will be used by routing protocol designers to ensure adequate coverage of security in the future, including well known and possible threats.

The scope of work is limited to router-to-router protocols only for both unicast and multicast systems, and does NOT include host-to-router protocol such as IGMP, ICMP, ARP, or ND. It is also a non-goal at this point to produce new or change the current security mechanisms in the existing routing protocols.